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the vineyards at Garsnas. The storks, which halt to 

 rest themselves in Sk&ne, make their nests here in this 

 mild climate ; they do not stop anywhere higher up 

 in Sweden. The storks arrive in Sweden yearly about 

 March 24, and depart about August 10. 



On June 7 the attractions of Tunbyholm , a seat of his 

 old friend Baron Reuterholm, drew him northward and 

 away from the sea; thence he went still further northward 

 to St. Ola'f, where there was a famous Catholic church, of 

 which he describes the interior. From hence he followed 

 the high-road to Lund. ' The black poplar grows so 

 readily here in the rich tawny -earth, that one has but 

 to stick a bough in the ground, leave it alone, and it 

 becomes a tree ; ' but at Sisbo began the long sand 

 levels, 1 in an elevated belt of about seven English miles 

 wide and twelve miles long. The Romeleklint commands 

 a view of the whole province of SkSne. Dalby, where the 

 sands come to an end, lies like a Land of Canaan across 

 them on the other side. In Sk&ne, buck-wheat 2 is 

 sown on the sandy soil, improving it in process of time. 



Of Dalby Kloster, once a twin bishopric with Lund, 

 under the English Bishop Egino, some fine ruins re- 

 main. Lund lay one Swedish mile from Dalby. Here 

 Linnaeus was at home, so to speak, and able to rest. 3 

 He walked into the cathedral, and looked at the carving 

 of an ass fallen under the weight of his burden that is 

 sculptured at the base of a column at the entrance of 

 the nave, with its curious inscription, l A donkey is he 

 1 Romeleklint. 2 Polygonum Fagopyrum. 3 June 10. 



